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| Title: | Disability and the life course : global perspectives / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Priestley |
| ISBN: | 0521793408 (hbk.; 9780521793407 (hbk; 0521797349 (pbk.); 9780521797344 (pbk.) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index. Content: Introduction : the global context of disability / Mark Priestley -- Repositioning disability and the life course : a social claiming perspective / Sarah Irwin -- Marginalisation and disability : experiences from the Third World / Anita Ghai -- Where do we draw the line? Surviving eugenics in a technological world / Gregor Wolbring -- A complicated struggle : disability, survival and social change in the majority world / Emma Stone -- Life event histories and the US independent living movement / Devva Kasnitz -- A journey of discovery / Swapna McNeil -- Using life story narratives to understand disability and identity in South Africa / Ruth Morgan -- Social change and self-empowerment : stories of disabled people in Russia / Elena Iarskia-Smirnova -- Lifting the Iron Curtain / Kaido Kikkas -- Revisiting deaf transitions / Mairian Corker -- The hidden injuries of 'a slight limp' / Devorah Kalekin-Fishman -- Disabled children : an emergency submerged / Sue Philpott and Washeila Sait -- Failing to make the transition? Theorising the 'transition to adulthood' for young disabled people / Kay Tisdall -- Breaking my head in the prime of my life : acquired disability in young adulthood / Allison Rowlands -- Work and adulthood : economic survival in the majority world / Majid Turmusani -- The possibility of choice : women with intellectual disabilities talk about having children / Kelley Johnson ... [et al.] -- Ageing with disability in Japan / Miho Iwakuma -- Ageing with intellectual disabilities : discovering disability with old age : same or different? / Nancy Breitenbach. |
| Description: | xix, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : the global context of disability / Mark Priestley -- Repositioning disability and the life course : a social claiming perspective / Sarah Irwin -- Marginalisation and disability : experiences from the Third World / Anita Ghai -- Where do we draw the line? Surviving eugenics in a technological world / Gregor Wolbring -- A complicated struggle : disability, survival and social change in the majority world / Emma Stone -- Life event histories and the US independent living movement / Devva Kasnitz -- A journey of discovery / Swapna McNeil -- Using life story narratives to understand disability and identity in South Africa / Ruth Morgan -- Social change and self-empowerment : stories of disabled people in Russia / Elena Iarskia-Smirnova -- Lifting the Iron Curtain / Kaido Kikkas -- Revisiting deaf transitions / Mairian Corker -- The hidden injuries of 'a slight limp' / Devorah Kalekin-Fishman -- Disabled children : an emergency submerged / Sue Philpott and Washeila Sait -- Failing to make the transition? Theorising the 'transition to adulthood' for young disabled people / Kay Tisdall -- Breaking my head in the prime of my life : acquired disability in young adulthood / Allison Rowlands -- Work and adulthood : economic survival in the majority world / Majid Turmusani -- The possibility of choice : women with intellectual disabilities talk about having children / Kelley Johnson ... [et al.] -- Ageing with disability in Japan / Miho Iwakuma -- Ageing with intellectual disabilities : discovering disability with old age : same or different? / Nancy Breitenbach. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Mark Priestley. |
| Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies. |
| Year: | 2001. |
| Publisher: | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 00065156 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: HV1568; Dewey No.: 305.9/0816 |
| OCLC No.: | 45446516 |
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